Teach Me How To Taric

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The Veigar nerfs have left me without my main, at least for the near future. I've decided to find out how I do without Veigar by playing my placements without him. It has been, um, somewhat painful so far.

I used to play Taric a lot. I'm thinking now might be a good opportunity to try him again.

So! Share your Taric wisdom. Right now, my main thoughts are:

• Better when my team has lots of AD. (AD costs twice as much as AP, but his ult gives even amounts of AD and AP.)
• Better when the enemy team is physical damage heavy.
• Better with a bursty carry*, like Graves.
• Better against Champions that really need to be stunned, like Kat.
• In teamfights, should probably focus on peeling for the carry.

What else?

*: Speaking of throwbacks, remember when ADCs were just called "carries"? I don't really like this newfangled "AP Carry" term. Of course a mage can carry, and some mages even scale well into lategame, but this feels like a euphemism. Supports dominate early, mages dominate mid-game, carries (ADCs) dominate late-game. This whole "everyone's a carry!" thing seems kind of silly to me.